now i get this error message when i try to connect to mysql could someone please help me to sort it out....
thanks in advance....

mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)'
Check that mysqld is running and that the socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' exists!

The weird thing is that I need to give these commands every time my system restarts....

The errors I got from proftpd were because of the fact that I did not configure the system to act as a server properly so in order to fix it I configured the system according to the how to by falko the perfect setup debian etch http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_debian_etch.